Shade-roller bracket



May 18, 1926. I 1,585,064

J. R. WILLIAMS EPAL SHADE ROLLER BRACKET Filed Feb. 27, 1925 Pl-l g 'f Cz, 1(5,.TIM/IT,Airomvlsy Patented May 18, 1926i.

narran etarra narrar arriba- JOHN R. WILLIAMS, ALBERT D. STANLEY, AND JOSEPH S. ROGERS, OF GREENVILLE, ALABAMA.

, SHADE-'ROLLER BRACKET.

Application Ied February 27, 1925. Serial No.'11,9f86.

This invention relates to curtain fixtures and has special reference to a shade roller support.

lt is common to secure brackets for shade rollers to the window easing either directly by screws or nails or to secure such fixtures to a block or board and fasten the latter to the casing by screws or nails. Either method results in marring the casing and makes considerable trouble when it is desired to paint the casing or remove the fixtures for any purpose.

One important object of the invention is to avoid these objections by the provision of an improved general construction of window shade bracket adapted to be readily applied to or disengaged from a window casing without the use of screws, nails or tools of any description.

A second important object of the invention is to provide an improved device of this description which may be applied to any size of window casing without adjustment of parts, the device itself being constructed without having sliding extensions and the like with their accompaniment of fastening bolts or screws.

A third important object of the invention is to provide an improved device of this class which can be cheaply made and in which the number of parts will be but few.

`With the above and other objects in view as will be hereinafter apparent, the invention consists in general of certain novel details of construction and combinations of arts hereinafter fully described, illustratedV in the accompanying drawings and specifically claimed.

ln the accompanying drawings like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views, and

Figure 1 is a front View of the invention Vshowing a window' casing in dotted lines.

Figure 2 is afront view showing the device as applied to a window casing having wider side and top members.

Figure 3 is a frontview of the device to a larger scale than Figures 1 and 2.

Figure 4 is a side elevation thereof.

Figure 5 is a section through one end of the coiled spring` used herewith on a greatly enlarged scale.

Figure 6 is a view showing the prongs On the upper part of the device.

ln the embodiment of the invention herein disclosed there is provided a main partpreferab'ly stamped from sheetmetal. This part consists of a vertical stem 10 having intermediate its ends a short flange 11 pro-- the other for the left side of the window.

Correspondingly the openings 12 will be made to accommodate the shapes of the pintles. At the top of the member 10 is a rearwardly extending horizontal flange 13 provided at its rear corners with prongs 14. At the bottom, the member 10 is rolled to form a tube 15 w-herethrough passes a coiled tension spring 16, the middle portion of the spring engaging in said tube and the ends extending equally on each side thereof. ln each end of this spring is secured (by brazing or the like) a rod 17 having an end extending from the spring in continuation thereof and provided with a terminal grip portion 18 extending at a right angle to the projecting end of the rod 17.

In applying the device the flange 13 is engaged on top of the lintel of the window and the spring stretched tillthe grips 18 can engage on the side edges of the window side frame member.

rlhe spring may be stretched sol that both ends lie in alinement for windows having narrow lintels as in Figure 1, or the spring ends may be bent down as in Figure 2 in cases where the depth of the lintel is too great to permit engagement of the grips with the side edges of the frame while the ends of the spring are alined. This featurey of .the invention is very important as it enables the device to be used with practically all depths of lintels and all widths of side members.

Also it will be noted that all of the parts, u

which are only four in' number, are fiXedly connected.

There has thus been provided a simple and efficient device of the kind described and for the purpose specified.

It is obvious that minor changes may be made in the form and construction of the invention without departing from the material spirit thereof. It is not, therefore, desired to confine the invention to the exact form herein shown and described, but it is desired to include all such as properly come Within the scope claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is:

l. A shade roller bracket formed from a single piece of sheet metal and including a body portion provided with a shade roller pintle engaging portion and having a flange at its upper end engageable over the top of a Window lintel and having a transversely extending tube at its lower end, a coiled tension spring extending through said tube and gripped at the middle thereby, and side frame gripping members carried by the ends of said spring.

2. A shade roller bracket formed from a single piece of sheet metal and including a body portion consisting of a vertical strip of sheet metal, a short Flange on one edge of the strip intermediate its ends and having a pintle receiving opening a rearwardly extending iiange at the upper end of said strip and provided with prongs at its rear corners, a rolled portion at the lower end or the strip forming a tube, a coiled tension spring extending through the tube and having its middle gripped thereby, and rods each secured in a respective end oi said spring and having a projecting end bent at right angles to form a grip.

In testimony whereof We aflix our signatures.

JOHN R. VILLIAMS.

ALBERT D. STANLEY.

JOSEPH S. ROGERS. 

